Human Fieldwork Enquiry

Title

What are the impacts of tourism on Keswick

Hypothesis A

Tourists are important to the local economy of Keswick

Hypothesis B

Tourists damage the natural environment in Keswick

Method 1 of collecting data

• Questionairre - random sampling

Positives of method 1 of collecting data

Equal chance of being chosen

Negatives of method 1 of collecting data

• Unintentional bias, asked more women

• Wasnt vey busy so students asked same people

Method 2 of collecting data

Environmental quality survey - systematic sampling

Positives of method 2 of collecting data

200m intervals - coverage of wide area

Negatives of method 2 of collecting data

very subjective method - scores hard to decide

Way of presenting method 1 fieldwork finidng

questionairre presented on pie chart, bar charts

Way of presenting method 2 fieldwork finding

EQS presented on radar graphs

Describe the reason of the visit

• In the pie chart almost half (47%) were in Keswick for tourism.

• No one was there for cultural

Describe how they traveled there

• Almost 2/3 of people travelled by car

• 18% walked to Keswick

Descibe the spending during visit

bar chart showed over half of the people asked spent less that £50

Describe the EQS results

Average score for all locations 1.2/5 so environmentally good

Hypothesis A results

• Yes - 23% spend over £100.

• They create jobs for people.

• 47% of people surveyed were tourists.

Hypothesis B results - Tourists damage the natural environment in Keswick

• We found out that tourists do not damage the natural environment as the environmental quality scores were good.

• But there were large amounts of litter than impacted the scores in areas of high footfall and near to food retailers.

• Additionally, the amount of cars in the surrounding areas could be having negative environmental consequences.